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E Murdoch Family Foundation at a glance

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E Murdoch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$287kRecreation & Sports$100kPhilanthropy$96kEnvironment$86kHealth$46kHuman Services$41kReligion$29kArts & Culture$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$22,500
RADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION$12,500
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$10,500
ABC OF LOWER MARION$8,000
ISLAND ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL$5,000
WILLS EYE FOUNDATION$4,500
EPISCOPAL ACADEMY$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$2,500
BOYS' LATIN PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL$2,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$2,000
MARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION$2,000
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,500
HAVERFORD COLLEGE$1,500
GLUT1 DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION$1,059
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%GEMMA SERVICES: $1k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%GEMMA SERVICES: $500 → 7%GEMMA SERVICES: $500 → 7%GEMMA SERVICES: $500 → 7%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $250 → 7%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$726k · 68 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
54

Total granted

$726k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

75%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +58%
  • BL
    BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +79%
  • WC
    Willistown Conservation Trust Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCUDDER ASSOCIATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is Historic Sugartown Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 131 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
56/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $68,500 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOLBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $67,500 · EducationBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER …THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $35,000 · EducationTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATIONTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $23,500 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYEpiscopal Academy: $20,950 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $17,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · Education+7 more: $13,130 · EducationJEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $89,000 · OtherJEFFERSON FOUNDATIONBRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $26,780 · OtherBRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $18,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - OFFICE OF DEVELOPM…LEGACY YOUTH TENNIS: $18,000 · OtherLEGACY YOUTH TENNISUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $11,260 · Other+71 more: $126,900 · Other+71 moreWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $61,500 · EnvironmentWillistown C…RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: $15,266 · EnvironmentRIVERBEND EN…Natural Lands Trust Inc: $3,500 · Environment+10 more: $5,914 · Environment+10 moreRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $71,200 · Recreation & SportsRADNOR HUN…WOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $3,250 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,350 · Recreation & SportsPETER'S PLACE: $34,250 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $3,250 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 · HealthGLUT1 Deficiency Foundation Inc: $2,084 · HealthMARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthMERAKEY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthPHILADELPHIA CHARITY BALL: $1,500 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,040 · HealthTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $2,250 · HealthPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $4,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $2,750 · Arts & CultureChester County Historical Society: $2,500 · Arts & Culture1883 FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$254,080Other$307,190Environment$86,180Recreation & Sports$75,800Youth Development$34,250Health$24,124Arts & Culture$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $71,200 over 8y, 40% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $68,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $67,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $61,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $34,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $20,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: $15,266 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $11,260 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $6,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION: $5,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRyerss Farm for Aged Equines: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $3,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $3,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $3,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChester County Historical Society: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGemma Services: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLUT1 Deficiency Foundation Inc: $2,084 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVisionLink: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERAKEY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHARITY BALL: $1,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $1,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds RADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO ↗
  • Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Quaker City FoundationHamilton Family Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Chester County Commun…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…John and Carole Barth…Macelree Family Found…The William Penn Foun…Daniel M Tabas Family…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Bentley Foundation
Quaker City FoundationPA49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quaker City Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation · Macelree Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Bentley Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E Murdoch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Murdoch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to E Murdoch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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